Minuscule 188

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Minuscule 188
Text	Gospels
Date	12th century
Script	Greek
Now at	Laurentian Library
Size	15.2 cm by 11.6 cm
Type	Byzantine text-type
Category	none
Note	Kx marginalia

Minuscule 188 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 223 (Soden),^[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 12th century.^[2] It has marginalia.

Description

The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 228 thick parchment leaves (size 15.2 cm by 11.6 cm).^[2] The text is written in one column per page, in 25 lines per page (10 by 7 cm),^[2] in black and brown ink, the capital letters in red.^[3] It is a beautiful manuscript.^[4]

The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, and their τιτλοι (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages. There is also a division according to the Ammonian Sections (in Mark 233 Sections; 16:8), with references to the Eusebian Canons (written below Ammonian Section numbers).^[3]

It contains prolegomena, tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each Gospel, lectionary markings at the margin for liturgical reading, synaxaria, Menologion, and subscriptions at the end of each Gospel, with numbers of στιχοι.^[3]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden included it to the textual family K^x.^[5] Aland did not place it in any Category.^[6] According to the Claremont Profile Method it belongs to the textual group M106 in Luke 1, Luke 10, and Luke 20.^[5]

History

The manuscript was examined by Birch, Scholz, and Burgon. C. R. Gregory saw it in 1886.^[3]

It is currently housed at the Laurentian Library (Plutei. VI. 25), at Florence.^[2]

See also

Bible portal

• List of New Testament minuscules
• Biblical manuscript
• Textual criticism

References

1. ^ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 54. http://www.archive.org/stream/diegriechischen00greggoog#page/n65/mode/2up. 
2. ^ ^{a b c d} K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, "Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments", Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 58.
3. ^ ^{a b c d} Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 164. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n177/mode/2up. 
4. ^ Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. 1 (4 ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 217. 
5. ^ ^{a b} Wisse, Frederik (1982). The profile method for the classification and evaluation of manuscript evidence, as Applied to the Continuous Greek Text of the Gospel of Luke. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 56. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4. 
6. ^ Aland, Kurt; Barbara Aland; Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.) (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 138. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1. 

Further reading

• Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 164. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n177/mode/2up. 

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